Applytexas essay help needed!

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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<p>Hello all, I have a burning question about the essay portion of the ApplyTexas app. I've written my essays in Microsoft Word, and they adhere to the character and line counts, however, I am having difficulty getting it formatted and knowing what kind of formatting they want for the essays. </p>

<p>For example, I don't know about the indents and how they want paragraphs to be set up, and when I click on the review essay button, it shows my essay with distorted line breaks and other formatting tweaks. Anyone know how to resolve this?</p>

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<p>Copy and paste your essays into MS notepad. Then, edit there. It may take some finessing in Notepad to get the paragraph breaks correct.</p>

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<p>I tried that, and it just made things even weirder when I moved that to the application.</p>

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<p>Save it as a PDF and upload it. That is what worked for us last year, but can’t be for sure it is the same this year.</p>

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<p>If you PDF it, it will hold the format. Not sure Apply Texas takes a PDF this year, but it should. </p>

<p>Good luck and congrats on being done so early! My son drove me CRAZY with waiting to apply last year. He did get into Computer Science and loves UT and is doing rather well in his classes.</p>

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<p>Not sure you are allowed to do PDF.</p>

<p>Use a word processing software program to write and save your essay(s). When you are ready to save your essay(s) in Apply Texas, come back to ApplyTexas Main Menu page at <a href=“ApplyTexas”>ApplyTexas; . Access your application, go to the Essays tab, and cut and paste your written, saved essay into the text area. You will be able to save, retrieve and edit the essay as many times as you want in Apply Texas prior to submitting your application. If submitting a paper essay, be sure to include your name and Social Security number on each of your essay pages when you submit them, as well as your application ID number.</p>

<p>Use a plain–text editor such as Microsoft WordPad to write and SAVE your essay(s). At the time you submit your admissions application, you will have the choice to SUBMIT all saved essays with your application, or to submit each essay individually later. If you choose to submit your essays later, come back to this page by logging in to your account and selecting the “My Essays” tab.</p>

<p>If you are submitting your essay online, it must be no longer than 120 eighty-character lines of text (including spaces and blank lines).</p>